School Board "commits" to build board ethics and code of conduct policy

In the draft minutes of the last regular board meeting, link,
you will find the following statement. It is the last bullet under
"V. Special Issues"

"Commitment to build board ethics and code of conduct policy"

No indication who said it or what it means.

The current state of board ethics and code of conduct policy is this;

1. The code of conduct that applies to administrators and board members, no longer requires them to be accountable as role models. They removed the role modeling clause which read;

In no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult,
be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

As a result, they are accountable only to the law; the lowest standard of conduct acceptable among civilized people.

Students. in stark contrast, are accountable to one of the
highest of standards of conduct. They are expected to
"... model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts!",
a nationally recognized, accepted, and respected code of
ethical conduct. Adults, consequent to the manifest lack of
character and courage on the school board and in the senior
administration, are not accountable as role models of the
student standards of conduct even for the measly few hours
each day they are holding students accountable to them.

The Policy Committee and its chair, the coward David Peercy, link, cannot summon the character and the courage to discuss, in and open and honest meeting, their refusal to restore the role modeling clause to their own code of conduct.

2. The APS School Board already has a code of conduct, link.
By their own admission, it is utterly unenforceable.

3. One cannot discuss codes of conduct without simultaneously
examining the actual accountability to them. There is not one wit
of difference between the highest of standards and the lowest,
if neither can be enforced.

The leadership of the APS; senior administrators and board members, are not subject to any system under which a complaint filed against them is guaranteed due process; not even the courts. The leadership of the APS routinely employs "legal" loopholes, technicalities, the legal weaselry of the lawyers at Modrall, and an unlimited budget for litigation against complainants.

4. Currently, these board members who are contemplating building ethics and codes of conduct, are denying due process to hundreds of whistle blower complaints against administrators and board members. They promised every whistle blower "review and approval" of their complaint; the promised a final hearing above administrators adjudicating complaints against their fellow administrators. A complaint filed against Supt Winston Brooks is actually adjudicated by a subordinate. It is an egregious conflict of interest and the board is enabling it.

It should be quite a discussion, if it ever comes up.

I am still banned from participating in that discussion by
the board's illegal restraining order and the threat of being
arrested by APS' Praetorian Guard; the APS Police Dept;
a publicly funded, private police force that reports directly
to, and only to, the leadership of the APS.

It is the APS Police Department that is suppressing evidence
of felony criminal misconduct involving APS administrators,
link. It is Winston Brooks who is suppressing the Caswell Report; with the aid and abet of Kent Walz and the Journal.